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Emma suspects Gold is planning vigilante justice when his house is robbed, as flashbacks show when Belle made a deal with Rumplestiltskin.

After Mr. Gold's house is robbed, Emma keeps a close eye on him when it looks like he wants to track down the criminal and dole out some vigilante justice as payback, and Valentine's Day finds Mary Margaret, Ruby and Ashley having a girls' night out. Meanwhile, in the fairytale land that was, Belle agrees to a fateful deal to give up her freedom in order to save her town from the horrors of the Ogre war.—ABC Publicity

We open on Sir Maurice hearing news. Avonlea has fallen. An aide laments, "If only he had come." The angry Maurice declares "ogres are not men" and are "unstoppable." His daughter tries assure him about this mysterious figure's pending arrival, suggesting, "He may be on his way." Suddenly, a knock on the door and we see Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle) mocking Maurice about his plea for help. Rumple says he can help protect Sir Maurice's "little town -- for a price." Rumple wants something more special than gold, which had been previously offered -- he wants Maurice's daughter. He wants her as a caretaker for his "rather large estate." Maurice orders Rumple out, but his daughters volunteers to go despite her fiance and father's objections. Rumple warns her "it's forever,". She agrees to go in exchange for knowing her family and friends will all live. Maurice asks the young woman, Belle (Emilie de Ravin), not to go. "You can't go with this beast," he says. But she tells her father and her fiance, Gaston (Sage Brocklebank), it's been decided.

Back in Storybrooke, Mr. Gold seizes the flower delivery van of a man who's behind on his loan payment. The man was Sir Maurice back in Fairy Tale Land. The truck is taken. Regina (Lana Parrilla) sees it all and wants to chat with Mr. Gold. He doesn't want to talk, and leaves.

David (Josh Dallas) and Mary Margaret (Ginnifer Goodwin) chat over separate tables at the diner. Emma (Jennifer Morrison) arrives and gets the report from Mary Margaret that Henry is fine. Emma is still not allowed to see him. A friend named Ashley (Cinderella in Fairy Tale Land) shows up. She's just had a baby and her boyfriend has been working double shifts at the cannery. The waitress invites the whole group out for a girls' night, but no one seems interested. Emma gets a call from the station.

We next see Mr. Gold entering his large house, where the door was open. Emma shows up, gun drawn, and says a neighbor called and reported Mr. Gold's front door was open. Mr. Gold says he's been robbed. When Emma notes this seems to happen to him a lot, Mr. Gold says he's a difficult man to love.

We quickly cut to Fairy Tale Land, where Rumple is showing Belle to her "room" -- a dungeon. He locks her in.

Rumple tells Belle about all the duties she'll perform. She drops a teacup when he says one of the things she'll do is skin the children he hunts. He says this was just a quip, and she sees the teacup she dropped is chipped. He doesn't care, saying, "It was just a cup."

In Storybrooke, Mr. Gold wants Emma to leave, but she needs to know more. Mr. Gold tells her the thief was the flower deliverer whose van he's just seized.

In Fairy Tale Land, Belle asks Rumple why he spins so much. He says it helps him "forget." When she asks what he's trying to forget, he says he can't remember -- so it must have worked. She's trying to pull the drapes open to let some light in, but he'd nailed them in place. She tugs one and falls from her ladder, and Rumple catches her. She thanks him, and when she offers to put the drapes back up, he says it won't be necessary. He'll get used to it.

Emma tells Mr. Gold she's recovered his things from the flower guy's place. Mr. Gold insists there's something missing. Emma says she'll get it, and Mr. Gold says, "Not if I find him first."

Back at Rumple's place, Belle tells him she thinks he wanted here there because he's lonely. She says she noticed small clothing, for a child. She asks if there was a son. He says there was. "I lost him," he says, "as I did his mother." She asks if this means he was, in fact, an ordinary man. She wants to get to know him, especially if she's never going to meet anyone again. He says he thinks she's just trying "to learn the monster's weaknesses." She tells him he's not a monster. A loud knock on the door turns out to be Gaston, who Rumple turns into a pile of dust and a rose with the snap of a finger. Rumple brings the rose back to Belle, saying the knock was from an old woman selling flowers. He asks what made her choose to come with him. She says "heroism, sacrifice." She says she's glad she saved her village. He asks her about Gaston. She says it was an arranged marriage and she never really cared for Gaston. She says she thinks love is layered and she could never give her heart to someone as superficial as Gaston. She asks again about his son. He tells her to go to town and fetch some straw, and when she returns he'll tell his tale. She asks if he trusts her to come back, and he says, no -- he doesn't expect to ever see her again.

Storybrooke's girls' night has Ashley pounding drinks. The waitress checks out guys and urges Ashley to join, saying she's not married to Sean and he's always working.

Mr. Gold sees David at a store buying two Valentine's cards. David claims the two cards are for the same woman, he just couldn't decide which to choose. Mr. Gold says he's fortunate to have someone who loves him, and makes his purchase, which include rope and duct tape.

"Love is like a delicate flame," Mr. Gold says, "and once it's gone, it's gone forever." We next see Mr. Gold driving a van with the flower guy bound in the back.

Mr. Gold has brought the flower guy to a cabin, and says he doesn't normally let people get away.

Belle is walking through the forest when the Queen's caravan comes by and stops. The Queen decides to walk with Belle for a stretch. She probes a bit and determines Belle is running from a "master and lover." Belle admits she "might" love her employers, but "something evil has taken root in him." The Queen says it sounds like a curse. A kiss borne of true love could break it.

Belle returns to Rumple's place and is giddy, though he tells Belle he's just "not unhappy" she's back. She then takes her place to hear the story about Rumple's son. He says he lost his son and there's nothing more to tell, really. Rumple asks why she came back. Belle says she wasn't going to, but then something changed her mind. She kisses him, and he feels odd -- and we see his weird coloring begin to change. Belle tells him to kiss her again, adding, "any curse can be broken." Rumple jumps back and asks about who told her that. He thinks the Queen has aimed to turn Belle against him. He's enraged, and shouts at Belle, who asks why he doesn't believe their kiss was one of true love, saying, "Because no one, no one can ever love me!" He tosses her back into her dungeon.

Back in the cabin, the flower guy wants to explain but Rumple chokes the man by pressing the end of his cane into the guy's throat. He says he wants to know "where it is" and who told him to take it. The man says he needed his van. Mr. Gold beats him with the cane, and the man says "it wasn't my fault." Mr Gold continues to beat the man, saying, "You shut her out. You had her love, and you shut her out. She's gone forever, she's not coming back and it's your fault, not mine."

We then flash to Rumple smashing things up in his castle.

We flash back to the cabin, where Emma has grabbed Mr. Gold's cane and told him to stop.

Flashing back again to Rumple's destruction of things in his castle, he flings teacups across the room, smashing them into pieces on the wall. But when he sees the chipped teacup, he stops, puts it on the table and walks away.

At girls' night, Ashley tells Mary Margaret she needs a "be-at-home-with-my-guy night." Mary Margaret says she understands, being in love with someone you can't be with is "a terrible burden." Shawn shows up at the bar, taking a break from work, and asks Ashley to marry him. She says yes, and everyone cheers. After Ashley leaves, Mary Margaret stands outside and David asks, "How's girls' night?" He gives her a Valentine's card. She opens it, and it reads, "Cathryn, I love you." He apologizes and hands her the other card. Mary Margaret tells him he should go home to Cathryn.

Emma tells Mr. Gold he has a funny definition of justice. Emma asks who Mr. Gold was talking about when he was telling the flower guy he "hurt her" and "what happened to her?" When Mr. Gold refuses to cooperate, Emma arrests him.

Back in Rumple's castle, he enters her dungeon and tells her to go. He says he doesn't want her anymore. She gets up to leave, but stops and tells him he could have been free if he'd just believed someone would want him. She calls him a coward, but he says he just made a decision his power means more to him than she does. She tells him he's going to regret it, and all he'll have "is an empty heart and a chipped cup."

At the station. Emma tells Mr. Gold -- who's locked up -- she still owes him a favor. She offers half of her pastrami sandwich. He says when he does decide to redeem the favor, it'll be for more than a half a sandwich. Regina shows up and tells Emma she can have 30 minutes with Henry, which would mean leaving Regina alone with Mr. Gold. Emma takes it and leaves.

Mr. Gold says when two people both want something the other has, a deal can always be struck. He asks Regina (Lana Parrilla) if she has what he wants. She says yes. Mr. Gold looks shaken. When he asks Regina what she wants, she asks him his real name. He claims his name is Mr. Gold. She says if he wants what she has, he'll tell her his real name. He manages to choke out the word: Rumplestiltskin.

Pleased with herself, Regina pulls the chipped teacup from her purse and mocks Mr. Gold for it as she hands it to him, referring to the cup as a "sentimental keepsake."

"Thank you, your majesty," he says.

Mr. Gold warns Regina he really has the power in Storybrooke, and nothing between them will change.

"We shall see," she says.

Back in Fairy Tale Land, the Queen shows up at Rumple's place and says she has a request concerning a mermaid. Rumple doesn't want to talk about it, and the Queen asks if he's angry with her. He says her little deception failed, and she'll never be more powerful than him. He tells her she can keep trying, but she's never going to beat him. She asks if it's "about that little girl I met on the road." When he says her name was Belle, the Queen tells Rumple she had "nothing to do with that tragedy."

He asks, "What tragedy?"

The Queen explains after Belle returned home, her fiance was gone, her father shut her out, locked her in a tower. She says Belle threw herself off the tower and died. Rumple thinks the Queen is lying, and asks her to leave. The Queen notes on her way out the place is getting dusty and he should "get a new girl."

Rumple goes to a cabinet, pulls out the chipped cup and puts it on a pedestal, crying.

Back in Storybrooke, Regina goes into a special-access area of the hospital and heads downstairs. She hands a nurse a rose and asks, "Has anyone been in to see her?"

The nurse tells Regina, "Not today -- not ever."

Regina goes down a creepy hallway, opens a small slot in a door and looks inside, where we see the Storybrooke version of Belle, locked up and stunned to see Regina's face looking through the slot in the door.